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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Yet I would not depreciate, in the least degree, the value of the years with which this 

 volume has dealt. Without them the full development of a later period would have 

 been impossible ; and without the constant energy and love of sportsmanship which 

 they reveal, in all classes of Englishmen all over the country, there would be no 

 explanation of those successful and united movements which set the Turf upon a 

 sure foundation in the latter half of the eighteenth century. 



END OF VOLUME I. 



